The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.